Doughnuts! What are your favorite kind of doughnuts?

Love how Claire is very respectful. Obviously she’s a pro and knows all/most of these things, but waits for direction and doesn’t feel like she needs to prove herself or get defensive.

It's interesting to see how Claire's personality/demeanor changes depending on how the guest acts. She was much more "student being guided" this episode than before

the little face appearing on things like bowls or pots is so cute honestly one of the best things about this channel

I feel like Hal discovered how to make little animated faces on pots and such and now he physically can’t help himself from putting them in every five minutes… and I love that

i felt vinny’s pride when claire finally said ring the bell

The gingerbread house in the background made me so excited for these episodes during the holiday season!

The Sourdooouughtnut saga may be my favourite content from the before place.

If Claire and Vallery opened a bakery together, I would gladly use every single dollar I earned to keep them in business.

Claire is so amazing, supportive of other fellow bakers. I look forward to Thursdays just for the bright spot that Claire is in everyone’s lives. Besides doughnuts that’s a win win.. ice the doughnut with Vinny’s editing and you’re golden. It will BOB up in the oil, and Bob’s you’re uncle.

Claire isn't "pretending not to know" stuff, she's just listening to her guest and learning how she bakes. People in the comments sound so condescending towards Vallery :/

I adored this guest! It was so relaxing to watch and learn with Claire, even though she knows all this glorious stuff. just ordered the cookbook Life is What you Bake It!

I love Claire’s hands when she gets excited about how the food looks

Vallery could teach her own class! She's so expressive, clear, and seems lovely to work with! This was great and I can't wait to try this recipe :)

Vallery has such a calming, educational voice 🥰 I would trust her to not judge my ugly donuts

Oh wow, old fashioned doughnuts make that ridge-y shape by themselves?! :0 I had no idea.

I love how she just walked in and got to it. Claire's word of the day is "Okay"

i think some people in the comments are failing to realize that while the instructions are for the viewers, they are also for claire. she has guests that are more knowledgeable in other areas than she might be so its good to give them the time to shine while she simply follows. id rather her respond to the instructions and have minimal things to say than her asking questions or diverting attention from the recipe because it would take away from the guests and the valuable and fun bits of information that they have about baking. in the end while shes the host, she is also a person who seeks new things to learn so its cool to see what she might take away from each experience she has on dessert people :) thats what makes collabs so fun

Great video, I love Vallery and the energy she and Claire have. Wish you would put the guests names in the title of these collab videos though, or even just in the thumbnail.

the little faces on random things is one of my favorite things ever lol kudos to whoever adds those in!!

Really enjoyed Vallery as a guest, she has such a lovely personality. Also, lawyer-turned-baker?! What a dream!

9:24 - I just love Claire's reaction when Vallery mentions the glaze! More deliciousness on those doughnuts!!

“Life is what you bake it” would be the greatest life’s motto for an optimistic baker lol

Ok, but the way the sieve changed on 10:09 , EDITING MAGIC 😂

Love this guest. She's so knowledgeable and approachable. Love this girl power energy between these two

Remember when NYT Cooking channel posted Claire's contributor videos on Fridays so we got two days a week of Dessert Person... those were the days! lol

This my first introduction to Vallery and wow!! Love her and her energy! She's also such a great speaker/teacher. Loved this episode of her and Claire together!

Claire is absolutely excellent at looking like she doesn't know the directions and tips that she's being told when she absolutely does already know them. I really appreciate it as someone who doesn't know.

I made this last weekend and it is so good! I thought I was going to fail for sure because I have never made doughnuts let alone deep fry anything. It is so easy and fun to make. it is fluffy, tangy and delicious! One thing I'd suggest is to double the recipe or triple. The batter for one batch (yielded about 8 doughnuts) is very small the paddle attachment doesn't quite reach and I wasn't confident it was mixing well. It still came out great but next time I'm definitely making a double or triple batch. For mixing reasons and also because it is so so delicious that one batch isn't gonna be enough!!

*Vallery adds more flour to the dough* 3 seconds later: "there's too much flour on the dough, we can take it off with this handy tool" xDD

My Grandma and I make cake donuts together for Christmas every year, and have been doing it since I was 9 or 10. We have one recipe that has a little bit of lemon zest in it and they are so good! We usually make the dough the day before, and leave it outside on the porch over night to firm up. (Living in the countryside in Norway, that’s where all food/leftovers are stored during winter 😂)

I loved this video - please keep dessert people coming. I would have been really interested to hear how someone goes from lawyer to baker, how awesome?!

Claire is a great teacher. Teachers were once students. It seems she was also a good student. Pro teaching Pro. Awesome.

Vallery is a natural teacher/host and Claire was a great respectful student.

I'm sorry but if that pumpkin pie in the back was for a video, then that is all I am thinking about now! :D as soon as I clocked it I got so excited and happy lol

I adore how these two amazing, highly-qualified women speak to one another. Claire knows how to make doughnuts, but here she is, deferring to her guest!

Claire getting so excited about the glaze made me happy

This feels like the most respectful episode ever and the cutest. Two wonderful pastry chefs just bursting with kindness and learning.

I feel like Vallery was explaining it step by step for the audience so they knew exactly what to do, but by using Claire as an audience proxy, so it was kind of funny and weird to hear her congratulating Claire on doing little things well since I think we all know she's like a very accomplished pastry chef,

The comments of how Claire is “pretending not to know this stuff” are weird and ring of privledge. Claire is just listening to her guest and *their* recipe and how *they* make doughnuts. She’s learning how others may approach recipes and recipe development. You can always learn new things. So thank you, Claire for having Valery on the show, genuinely learning and listening to other pros and “dessert people.” I really love old fashioned doughnuts

More donuts please. The idea of different glazes has me excited

I'm obsessed with how crispy and fluffy these look!

Claire! It's so wonderful being able to see inside your kitchen and to hear your thought process as you bake. I've made so many of your recipes and they are beautifully balanced, my self proclaimed "not-a-dessert-person" partner gobbles up every single one! I also love that you pair up with other bakers and introduce us to more brilliant people in the baking world. Thanks to your KZfaq shows and your book, you've made me a more confident and creative baker. Thank you for everything!! I wish you all the happiness and success in everything you do. ❤️

My Thursday mornings revolve around Claire content ❤️

claire is so attentive and let the guest lead. claire is a great host

My two favorite chefs coming together to make my favorite food? Today’s gonna be a good day

It’s cool having two people on the show. I love the solo episodes as well but it’s nice having multiple people and seeing them play off each other

My husband and I moved out of the US about a year ago and haven’t had real donuts since, you have no idea how excited he was when I surprised him with these!

Honestly I was going to go to sleep for a little after working all night for my college classes. But then I got a bell notification and it’s already 10:30am so here I am watching Claire make donuts lol. 😍🤤

Love old fashioned donuts! The best old fashioned donut I’ve ever had was from King Pin donuts in Berkeley, CA.

donuts aka the perfect MEAL. yes, meal

PLEASE the Harris cat cam at the end was *too* cute Loved this episode!!!

I love this! It makes me feel like Claire is us in the kitchen listing to all the instructions. Always learning

Miss Claire you have done the most of most cooking. Like you are a food god. I love how real you are. Just letting her shine.

it's cute how you can tell it's their first time meeting together, it's kinda awkward in the most adorable way possible between these two

Yes!! Claire, I watch you every Thursday on the treadmill 😆. Grad school has been great since i started following your cookbook! And now doughnuts from Dessert People!! Thank you!

When Vallery said “bench flour” I heard “bitch flour”, I laughed hysterically, and I will never not call it bitch flour from now on.

Oh my goodness, those donuts look SO good! Usually I prefer yeasted donuts, but these ones look like such a cut above any other donut I've had. Great video!

Ohhh cake donuts are my absolute fav & these look amazing. Claire's comment "I want the glaze" says perfect sweetness, not sugar overload. Love this 💖👍👍.

Commenting to feed the algorithm. Claire is awesome!

I was ACTUALLY just daydreaming about homemade old fashions this morning before getting ready for the day. Then I remembered it's Thursdays (and we all know Thursdays are for dessert!) I see Claire with Vallery on the thumbnail while pulling up KZfaq, this is a daydream come true ! I appreciate the recipe Vallery created--I do need some quick delicious recipes, and this checks out 1000%. I know that I'll be making these for sure if not today then absolutely tomorrow. Thanks for continuing to inspire us with recipes and content like this :)

The crew must love their job being able to have treats after filming 🍩

This is so silly, but I almost cried when I heard that "dessert people" and the animation showed people arriving it's been a heck of a year and I hope that we slowly, but surely, return to life as we knew it.

These people are very kind and generous to share the valuable and helpful information on making homemade sour cream cake donuts. This video is well made and easy to follow, with the recipe included. Without good videos like this one, I would be like a donut; I would be "GLAZED AND CONFUSED." Yes, pun intended, but I am now inspired to make homemade donuts. Love the idea of glaze with added melted butter, milk, powder sugar, and vanilla extract. An idea for this same glaze would be to mix in some cinnamon. You can also have chocolate, strawberry, or maple flavor glaze. Maybe coat the donuts with strawberry pink color glaze and immediately add rod shaped candy sprinkles before the glaze dries for a "HOMER SIMPSON" donut. Like the taste of chocolate covered strawberries, combine half strawberry flavor glaze and chocolate glaze for a spectacular flavor you will not likely find at the donut shop. Of course, with leftover dough, maybe make "donut sticks" that are not more than 1½ inch or 3 to 4 centimeters wide.

claire has such great chemistry with all her guests, this series has quickly become my favorite on the channel ❤️ keep up the good work dessert people!

I don't usually go for cake doughnuts, but Old Fashioneds are so good! Something about the sour cream makes them so rich and delightful.

My son just got a job at a local apple farm, helping to make their fried cakes on the weekends. He comes home smelling so good! I will try making these for sure. I like mine w/ cinnamon & sugar, & a mug of warm cider. 😋

I moved today, and it was super tiring. This is the last thing I'm watching before crashing for the night. So happy there was a Dessert People vid to end my very long, difficult day.

I can pass by most doughnuts without craving, but old fashioneds are irresistable. These look delicious!

This made me think about Brad and Claire’s doughnut episodes

My mother grew up during the depression so by necessity was an early creator/adopter of environmentalist practices. When frying donuts, she used saved bacon fat, and instead of using paper towels, she drained the donuts in cardboard egg cartons. The donuts were always coated with sugar, which was done by one lucky child who got the first taste. I’m definitely going to try this recipe, as hers has been lost.

5:04 i love these little animations 😭

Omg. I love donuts. Glazed Old Fashioned are my favorite!!!

The bench scraper needs marks from the edge to the handle so you can see how thick stuff is as you cut it! Love these ladies!

Loved this episode! I hope we get to see more Cozy Cabin Claire content soon though.

Vallery is such a good instructor! I also love the cat cam!! 10/10 show

Vallery: so we need a donut cutter Claire: *yeah, we don't do that around here...*

Laughed pretty hard at how the powdered sugar was going all over the place. Good video, I really like the "Dessert People" series.

I love the seemless cut when you were doing the powder sugar for the glaze. It's like "don't notice the 2 different sifters for the sugar! Because we needed a larger one" haha ;) But seriously though, nice cut. Haha

Best donut I ever had: apple cider donut with apple cider glaze We were visiting upstate NY from Utah and the apples were fresh and in season....soooooooo good. I remember the flavor and this was like 7 years ago!!

I love Vallery’s energy and the occasional giggle, I feel so safe here

Anyone else notice the change in bowl and sieve around 10:15? Took me a double take, and the explanation continued so perfectly - well done to the editors 😉☺️

I'm so excited to consider that I could do rosewater glaze on old fashioned donuts. Also, Vallery's necklace is lovely!

You are most inspiring remarkable baker Claire ❤️💕🐾🐾

Vallery is very charismatic :) i enjoyed her x

OMG OLD FASHION GLAZED!! These are my favourite!! As a Canadian I can say that the old fashion glazed are my favourite tim hortons donut. Definitely want to make these at home!!

Claire, you can adjust the speed of your mixer super easily by removing the back cover and adjusting the screws. I had the same issue with mine throwing flour everywhere.

Talented, smart, skilled, women making deliciousness! More please!

I used to make Korean twisted doughnuts now and then, but I've not felt the desire to heat up a whole lot of oil in a long time. This recipe is making me seriously reconsider that problem... You can tell after the first flip this has been tested to perfection.

The Gingerbread house in the background! I can wait:)

Growing up we used canned biscuits and would punch the whole with a bottle cap and then fry them. The glaze was powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk. So good.

Definitely need more Vallery. She was great! You were both so informative and funny. Great video.

Got Claire’s cookbook yesterday and today when I saw the “Thrice-Baked Rye Cookies” I knew I had to try them. Just finished making them and they are delicious! And also a very unique experience, kind of a cookie/brownie and having a very interesting and good flavor.

Valery and Claire complement each other so well!

I didn't know there was a Great American Baking Show. But good for Vallery. And, doughnuts, yum!!!!!

Yum. Gonna make these for Tea Time.

Super curious about the little gingerbread house! Anyone else?

Vallery has such a positive vibe

I loved the original Dunkin' Donuts old fashioned doughnut with the handle. It was their namesake doughnut designed for dunking in coffee with the handle that made it look like a "Q". It had mace or nutmeg in the mix for a rich flavor and mouth watering aroma but no glaze. They stopped making them sometime around 2003 when they went to mass production because they couldn't make the handle, only round cake doughnuts cut by machine or liquid batter machine drop doughnuts. I spoke to a manager that ran a Dunkin' shop back in the day. He told me their secret to the crispy outside was they double fried them. First fry was to a light golden brown, about where you had yours in the video, then rest for about 2-5 minutes and finally the second fry to get the darker outside with a crunch to hold up to the dunk. The closest commercial mix available is the Double M from Golden Dipt. I will have to try this recipe with added nutmeg to see how close they come to my memory of the OG "Dunkin'" doughnut. Thanks for the video.

Claire brings me so much happiness omg